Russell Picot is Chair of the trustee board of the HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Fund and a director of LifeSight, Willis Towers Watson’s UK DC Master Trust Board where he chairs the audit and risk committee. Picot retired as Group Chief Accounting Officer at HSBC in 2016, having joined the firm in 1993. He was appointed a group general manager in 2003. He was a co-chair of the FSB’s Enhanced Disclosure Task Force and is a special adviser to the Financial Stability Board’s climate-related financial disclosures task force. Picot has supported the Accounting for Sustainability project since its inception in 2004 and is an ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council. He is also Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, an honorary professor in Durham University Business School, and chairs the IIGCC Investor Practices Programme. Picot holds an MA in mathematics from Cambridge and is a chartered accountant.